Deserves to fail

Why should taxpayers bail out GM? Where is it written that there must be three major domestic automakers? For years, the Big 3 have made SUVs to get around fuel-efficiency rules and continued to make them even as consumers demanded fuel-efficient cars. In 1999, GM created the EV-1, an electric car that was leased to consumers. When the leases were up, GM took back these very popular cars, crushed them and killed the program perhaps because there was no need for GM-owned Delco after-market parts.

A failed business model deserves to die. After all, isn't business a competitive endeavor, with those adapting to the marketplace winning and those who don't adapt losing? I am sure that Toyota and Honda will be happy to expand their production in the U.S., knowing that there is a trained work force waiting in Detroit, and that the UAW will be ready to work with them.